The Sleeping Lady Author:Robert Graysmith A true-crime story about a serial killer. . . — His name was David J. Carpenter, Nearsighted, afflicted with a terrible stutter, given to intense rages, a salesmamn of cheap trinkets, he was an unpredictable man. Yet few people paid much attention to him or found him threatening. But they should have. For David Carpenter was the Trailside Killer ... more »who terrorized San Francisco and much of the rest of northern California with a series of rape-murders that began in 1979 and lasted until his capture almost three years later. The Trailside case became one of the great manhunts of the twentieth century and eventually involved the FBI and the law enforcment agencies of Marin County, San Francisco, Santa Cruiz, San Jose, and Daly City. The massive investigation made and smashed careers as lawmen fought the killer and one another in their long, frustration search for justice.« less